Jing Yang

Jing Yang is a senior economist in the Monetary and Economics Department. She worked at the Bank of Canada in Financial Markets Department straight after her PhD. Prior to joining the BIS, she had worked at the Bank of England for 8 years where she held various positions in financial stability and monetary policy areas of the Bank including an senior monetary policy adviser for external MPC members. During this period, she also had a short span at the ECB in its DG payments. She holds a Doctorate in Economics from Concordia University in Montreal and MA and BA in Economics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She published widely in the areas such as financial stability, monetary policy and international finance.

Fields of interest

• Monetary policy
• International finance

Selected Publications

• Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK, with S. Villa, in Interest Rates, Prices and Liquidity, Eds Jagjit S. Chadha and Sean Holly, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Optimal Bank Capital, with D. Miles and G Marcheggiano, The Economic Journal (forthcoming).
• Network models and financial instability with A. Alentorn E. Nier and T. Yorulmazer, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2007.
• Horizontal and vertical integration in security trading and settlement systems with J. Tapking, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 38, Number 7 October 2006.
• Non-linear, non-parametric and non-fundamental exchange rate forecasting with N. Gradojevic, Journal of Forecasting, Vol25, Issue 4, 2006.